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First Look: Forty Shades of Blue
Director: Ira Sachs
Producers: Mary Bing, Margot Bridger, Jawal Nga, Donal
Rosenfeld, & Ira Sachs
Screenwriter: Michael Rohatyn & Ira Sachs
Cast: Rip Torn, Dina Korzun, Darren E. Burrows, Jerry
Chipman, Stuart Greer, Emily McKenna, & Jenny O'Hara
Synopsis: (from IMDB.com)
Wealthy music producer Alan James (Rip Torn) lives with his beautiful
Russian girlfriend Laura (Dina Korzun), thirty years his junior, who he
met while she was a hostess at a restaurant on the bluffs of Mississippi.
They have a three-year-old son. Alan is a music legend, having produced
black music during the 60's and 70's, the golden era of Memphis Soul.
They live a life of luxury in the penthouse of the most opulent high-rise
in Memphis, Tennessee, but, although she is comfortable, Laura feels lonely
and isolated. Alan has an estranged adult son from a previous marriage,
Michael (Darren E. Burrows), a freelance writer, who is married and lives
with his wife in Los Angeles. Michael and his father have a complicated
relationship that is marred by disappointment, hampered by jealously,
and fueled by anger. When Michael returns home to Memphis for the first
time in many years, although he had at first disapproved of his father's
young girlfriend, a painful and dangerous love affair develops between
him and Laura, his contemporary. As this forbidden and incestuous passion
deepens in the bedrooms and bars of modern Memphis, Laura comes to an
illuminating self-confrontation that will change her soul and her life
forever...
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